de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

Claudian, Volume 2. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.

  1. esse putes, solusque dabat discrimina sexus.
  2. brachia nuda nitent ; levibus proiecerat auris
  3. indociles errare comas, arcuque remisso
  4. otia nervus agit ; pendent post terga sagittae.
  5. crispatur gemino vestis Gortynia cinctu
  6. poplite fusa tenus, motoque in stamine Delos
  7. errat et aurato trahitur circumflua ponto.
  8. Quas inter Cereris proles, nunc gloria matris,
  9. mox dolor, aequali tendit per gramina passu
  10. nec membris nec honore minor potuitque videri
  11. Pallas, si clipeum ferret, si spicula, Phoebe,
  12. collectae tereti nodantur iaspide vestes.
  13. pectinis ingenio numquam felicior artis
  14. contigit eventus ; nulli sic consona telae
  15. fila nec in tantum veri duxere figuras.
  16. hic Hyperionio Solem de semine nasci
    17. v.2.p.322
  17. fecerat et pariter, forma sed dispare, Lunam,
  18. aurorae noctisque duces ; cunabula Tethys
  19. praebet et infantes gremio solatur anhelos
  20. caeruleusque sinus roseis radiatur alumnis.